Acts 18

About Acts Acts tells how the Holy Spirit came and the good news about Jesus spread from Jerusalem to Rome.

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;SelectedActs 18:1Ask

And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.SelectedActs 18:2Ask

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.SelectedActs 18:3Ask

And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.SelectedActs 18:4Ask

And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.SelectedActs 18:5Ask

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.SelectedActs 18:6Ask

And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.SelectedActs 18:7Ask

And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.SelectedActs 18:8Ask

Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:SelectedActs 18:9Ask

For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.SelectedActs 18:10Ask

And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.SelectedActs 18:11Ask

And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,SelectedActs 18:12Ask

Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.SelectedActs 18:13Ask

And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:SelectedActs 18:14Ask

But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.SelectedActs 18:15Ask

And he drave them from the judgment seat.SelectedActs 18:16Ask

Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.SelectedActs 18:17Ask

And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.SelectedActs 18:18Ask

And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.SelectedActs 18:19Ask

When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;SelectedActs 18:20Ask

But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.SelectedActs 18:21Ask

And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.SelectedActs 18:22Ask

And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.SelectedActs 18:23Ask

And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.SelectedActs 18:24Ask

This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.SelectedActs 18:25Ask

And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.SelectedActs 18:26Ask

And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:SelectedActs 18:27Ask

For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.SelectedActs 18:28Ask

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